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Higher recruits would
enhance policing
Re: “Antioch and Pittsburg cops charged in huge conspiracy” (Web page A1, Aug. 18).
The latest exposé by the Bay Space Information Group of arrests of violent cops in our space raises a much bigger query. How are pre-rookies screened for such tendencies?
A former police chief in my city proudly advised me they’re given an MMPI. I consulted with a psychology professor pal, the take a look at truly measures similarity to others already within the career, not diploma of suitability for the duty.
It additionally appears that recruits are given further consideration for army expertise. In different phrases, having been educated to answer potential battle with violence.
Wouldn’t it make extra sense to desire these educated in sociology and psychology? Favoring nonviolent resolutions would clearly be preferable, if solely due to much less monetary legal responsibility for the employers of the cops.
It’s time to take a brand new path to pick out the kind of individual we would like policing our communities.
Fred Geiger
Santa Cruz
Mothers must look
up liberty definition
Re: “‘Concern and hate are the difficulty’” (Web page A1, Aug. 17).
“Mothers for Liberty,” huh? Maybe these mothers ought to spend much less time banning books and extra time studying books, just like the dictionary.
Definition of liberty: “the ability to do as one pleases; the ability of alternative.” Each mum or dad has the correct to decide on what books their youngsters learn, however nobody has the correct to inform others what books their youngsters can not learn. These teams are in each state and displaying up at native faculties and libraries to additional their trigger. Please become involved and discover out who’s operating to your native faculty board and metropolis council, even in case you have no school-age youngsters.
As these teams multiply so does our democracy weaken and our proper to decide on diminish, be it our books or our our bodies or our kids’s futures.
Emily Lovable
Santa Clara
Reform allowing for
inexperienced infrastructure
Re: “Bay Space youth applaud landmark Montana verdict” (Web page B1, Aug. 17).
I used to be delighted to learn your article in regards to the Bay Space youth who’ve discovered their local weather change activism reinvigorated by the success of Montana youth in a latest landmark case.
It’s my hope that every one youth local weather activists will proceed their efforts to struggle for our surroundings, well being and future and that extra youth and adults alike might be impressed to hitch them.
An vital subsequent step in shifting previous fossil fuels is to reform allowing, which might speed up the clear vitality infrastructure approval course of. With out such reform, america is not going to obtain its emissions discount potential by 2030.
Erik Medina
San Jose
Democrats want
a brand new customary bearer
After the deadliest wildfire in additional than 100 years, President Biden repeatedly for greater than 120 hours declined to remark.
The scenario worsened when he visited Lahaina, Maui, and conveyed anxiousness a couple of 2004 small kitchen hearth at his Delaware house. This commiseration was matched in opposition to lots of of lives misplaced, people and animals, at 1,000 levels, scared people leaping into the ocean, greater than 2,000 buildings destroyed and at the very least $4 billion in financial damages.
Robert Reich who labored for 4 presidents, acknowledged from his expertise and commentary “that the job of the American president is bodily and mentally grueling even for folks of their 40s, 50s, and 60s.” On quite a few latest events, President Biden’s decline has proven. It’s time for a professional youthful individual to signify Democrat values within the 2024 election.
David Lane
Los Gatos
Cease subsidizing
local weather destroyers
Re: “These accountable for Maui wildfires received’t pay a cent” (Web page A7, Aug. 23).
I agree with Caroline Levine’s opinion that these accountable for the Maui wildfires (the fossil gas firms) received’t pay a cent.
I additionally agree together with her resolution: We should make the polluters pay. The very first thing when you find yourself in a gap is to cease digging. We should cease subsidizing the fossil gas firms which can be destroying our planet.
Our tax {dollars} shouldn’t be killing the Earth, and our monetary establishments ought to cease financing the destruction of our house world.
David Coale
Palo Alto
Authorized specialists poke holes
in Trump reelection
Re: “Sadly, Donald Trump continues to be eligible to run for president” (Web page A6, Aug. 24).
